Sunday, December 14, 2014

Some friends and colleagues have been passing around a photo challenge, to post one black and white image every day for five days. Posted on FaceBook among us, we got to see some work from long ago to some from the present with a brief story of why.

This was one of mine..." Bonding "

To be a photographer is to be a witness to life, the good and bad it
offers. It's not just one event that sums it up but it can be just one
picture. This picture had nothing to do with the actual shoot of mother
daughter for a series on South Beach. It was a stolen moment while
patiently waiting for the cooperation of a little girl, a bonding of
parent and child, a trust, that leads hand in hand into an unknown, the first
step, hesitant yet confident in her mother's hand. There's a moment
in a photographer's time, that one or two hundredth of a second when you
know what you've caught, plays out a lifetime, sometimes theirs, sometimes
your own. For me this image brings back many memories of me and my
daughter at that time in her life.